Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261759681
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2132012000
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,310,878
- Expenses
- $26,101,750
- Assets
- $49,371,007
- Liabilities
- $2,094,939
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GUADALUPE GUERRERO (CEO (HIRED 4/24))
- DOMINIQUE MORRIS (INTERIM CEO (UNTIL 3/24), CPO & COO)
- JOAN ANANE (FMR CEO, STRATEGIC ADVISOR (UNTIL 12/24))
Highest reported compensation
- GUADALUPE GUERRERO (CEO (HIRED 4/24)): $324,417 total reported compensation
- RANDY ROMERO (CHIEF SCHOOLS OFFICER): $277,952 total reported compensation
- DOMINIQUE MORRIS (INTERIM CEO (UNTIL 3/24), CPO & COO): $268,122 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. The partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically under-resourced schools, and 2) remove barriers, pioneer new programs and scale success to benefit all district students. The partnership seeks to become a model for collaboration, school reform and community advancement that can be replicated throughout los angeles, California and the nation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Revolutionize school systems - to champion more equitable policies and practices for highest-need schools
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $22.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $324K · 29 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $144K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.